The Cynic Says……

So yeah, I bought my speedometer for my bike on something like Nov 21st and as of the morning of May 27th, I hit 2500 miles. That averages out to right around 400 miles a month. Not a ridiculous amount, but still not half bad considering a lot of that was the winter months. Hopefully I’ll end up doing more miles on my road bike than I did on my MTB. Realistically, I’d like to double my mileage to 800-1000 per month. I’ve been cheating too much and taking the bus. The problem is that it’s just so much quicker and I can sleep in so much later. It’s nice, but that means less mileage. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do a few centuries this summer on the road bike and really rack up the miles.

As for the road bike, I’m still waiting on parts. Universal cycles messed up and shipped my stuff UPS ground instead of 2nd day air, which means it won’t be here til June 1st. Thankfully, they were nice enough to refund all of my shipping costs, so I’m not TOO pissed off. I saved $22 and end up with it 5 days later. Everyone makes mistakes, so I’ll let them slide this time. Performance Bike took forever to ship my order and on top of that shipped it USPS, not Fedex like I requested. Hopefully it makes it here in one piece. They give me a tracking # and when I go to the USPS’s site it says tracking was not purchased for this item. Go fucking figure. Goddamn worthless douchebags. Too bad their prices are so damned good, otherwise there’s no way in hell I’d ever consider ordering from them again. At any rate, the only things that haven’t made it to my house are the ergopower levers, chain, cassette, seatpost, tires and pedals. Once that all gets here, I finally get to build it up and ride it. For now, I’m going with shitty cheapo pedals until I decide what I want to do. I’m considering a nice set of road pedals and shoes, but that’s going to cost me between $200-300. Ah, decisions, decisions..